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Memento Lodge, No. 37-Georgetown. E. D. Curtis, N. G .; O. C. Beebe, V. G .; L. B. McLaine, R. S .; A. A. Francis, Treas .; P. H. Spencer, P. S. Night of meeting-Saturday.
Polar Star Lodge, No. 56-Fair Play; transferred to Indian Diggings. F. A. Crabtree, N. G .; C. E. Rich- ardson, V. G .; J. G. Gilmore, R. and P. S .; J. G. Carr, Treas. Night of meeting-Saturday.
Cosumnes Lodge, No. 63-Latrobe. E. L. Huiston,
N. G .; S. A. Lano, V. G .; Thomas Hitchcock, R. and P. S .; C. W. Edwards, Treas. Night of meeting- Saturday.
Morning Light Lodge, No. 89-Spanish Flat. Leon- ard Reeg, N. G .; Thomas Ruddock, V. G .; G. W. Frater, R. and P. S .; G. H. Roclke, Treas. Night of meeting-Saturday.
Aurum Lodge, No. 23-El Dorado.
Silver Lake Lodge, No. -. Organized September 7th, 1857. Meeting Thursday at the Masonic Hall at Grizzly Flat. C. E. Springer, N. G .; H. Vance, R. S .; Wm. McCracken, V. G .; J. J. Dean, Tyler.
Zeta Encampment, No. 5-Organized at Diamond Springs in 1854 ; changed its location to Placerville in January, 1857, under dispensation of the M. W. G. P., Prescott Robinson.
PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY-GRANGE I.
"Industry requires its captains as well as war. During the past few years, the readers of our public journals have become conversant with the outbreaks in various parts of the United States of the laboring men. There seemed to be a demand for an organization through which these parties could manifest them- selves. Political or financial combinations had felt themselves secure during all the historical struggle between wealth and power on the one side, and num- bers on the other, because wherever combinations of workmen were not interdicted by law, advantage was taken by the diversity of interests among them to neu- tralize their influence.
In Europe the antagonism of industries was stimu- lated to an unnatural degree ; in America, the same thing was accomplished by ranging the great body of agriculturalists in separate political bodies.
The need of a great conciliating centralizing in- fluence was felt before the war of the rebellion. Soon after it became an imperative necessity, as the industry of the Southern States was entirely paralyzed, while that of the Northern States was laboring under a bur- den entirely too great to be borne.
The associations before organized proved inade- quate to cope with the master monopolies that had secured a firm hold on Congress and the capital of the land. It was natural that the initiative steps should be taken at Washington, where the dangers were most apparent. Hence, in January, 1866; under an order from the President of the United States, Mr O. H. Kelly, of the Agricultural Bureau, com- menced a tour of inspection through the Southern States. After consulting freely with the farmers of those sections visited he came to the conclusion that, to reconstruct the industries of the South, so devas- tated by the ravages of the war, would require the aid
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and co-operation of the entire land, only to be reached by a close bond of associations.
William Saunders, of the Bureau of Agriculture, an intelligent and thoughtful Scotchman, whose extensive correspondence had made him familiar with the struggles of the farmers in all parts of the country, entered warmly into the spirit of the movement. Mr. Kelly had proposed through some organization like unto the Masonic or Odd Fellows' fraternaties to unite the farmers of the country into close bonds of fellow- ship. The originators of the movement were O. H. Kelly, Wm. Saunders, Wm. M. Ireland, John R. Thompson, Rev. Dr. John Trimble and Rev. A. B. Grosh, who on the 5th day of August, 1867, met and compiled the first Degree of the Order of the " Patrons of Husbandry." A few days later Mr. Saunders went to St Louis for the purpose of establishing the Order in the Western States. The word " Grange " is of the pure old English, and used by writers to con- vey the idea of a farmstead or country residence ; in its symbolic application it means the hall or place of meeting of the members.
The natic Grange was first organized in Wash- ington city at the residence of William Saunders, on the evening of December 4th, 1867, and the following persons were elected as officers, viz :
Wm. Saunders, D. C. Master
J. R. Thompson, Vt Overseer
Anson Bartlett, Ohio Steward
Wm. Muir, Pa. Assistant Steward
A. S. Moss, N. Y. Chaplain
A. B. Grosh, Pa. Treasurer
Wm. M. Ireland, Pa .. . Secretary
O. H. Kelly, Minn. Gate Keeper
Edward F. Fanss, Ill. Gate Keeper
A subordinate Grange was formed out of about 60 members to test the working of the ritual.
The first dispensation was granted to an application of Harrisburg, Pa., the second one to Fredonia, N. Y., third to Columbus, Ohio, and fourth to Chicago, Ill. Only ten Granges were organized the first year, and at the end of the second year thirty-one were reported. The most rapid growth was in the Mississippi valley States in the west, Iowa being the Banner State in the movement. In 1873, from sixty to eighty Granges per day were organized in the Hawkeye State. The popu- larity of the Order knew no bounds, and it spread as the "tidal wave," until its ramification reached both shores of our Union. It was a powerfull stim- ulant and educator of the masses of both sexes in the agricultural districts, and its influence for a time was felt through the land. The objects and plans of the Order are fully expressed in an address by Wm. Saun-
ders to the third annual assembly of the National Grange, February 4th, 1870.
"To increase the products of the earth, by increasing the knowledge of the produce, is the basis of our structure ; to learn and apply the relations of science, so far as relates to the various products of the earth, and to diffuse the truths and general principles of the science and art of agriculture, are ultimate objects of our organization. We propose ---
First, To secure to ourselves through the Granges so- cial and educational advantages not otherwise attain- able, and thereby, while improving their condition as a class, ennoble farm-life, and render it attractive and desirable.
Second, To give a full practical effect to the fraternal tie which unites them, in helping and protecting each other in case of sickness, bereavement, pecuniary mis- fortune, want and danger of every kind.
Third, To make themselves better and more success- ful men and farmers, by means of the knowledge gained, the habits of industry and method established, and the quickening of thought induced by intercourse and dicussion.
Fourth, To secure economies in the purchase of implements, fertilizers and family supplies, and in transportation, as well as increased profits in the sale of the products of their labor, at the same time less- ening the cost to the consumer.
Fifth, To entirely abolish the credit system in their ordinary transactions, always buying and selling on a cash basis, both among themselves and in their dealings with the outside world.
Sixth, To encourage co-operation in trade, in farm- ing and in other branches of industry, especially those most intimately connected with agriculture.
Seventh, To promote the true unity of the republic, by drawing the best men and women of all parts of the country together in an organization that knows no bounds, no prejudices, and owes no party allegiance."
The following declaration of purposes was adopted by the State Grange of California October roth, 1874: First, United by the strong and faithful tie of agricul- ture, we mutually resolve to labor for the good of our Order, our country, and mankind.
Second, We heartily indorse the motto, "in essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in al things, charity."
Third, We shall endeavor to advance our cause by laboring to accomplish the following objects:
To develop a better and higher manhood and womanhood among ourselves. To enhance the com- forts and attractions of our homes and strengthen our attachments to our pursuits, to foster mutual under- standing and co-operation, to maintain inviolate our laws, and to emulate each other in labor, to hasten the
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good time coming. To reduce our expenses, both in- dividual and corporate, to diversify our crops, and crop no more than we can cultivate. To condense the weight of our exports, selling less in the bushel and more on the hoof and in fleece; less in ink and more in warp and woof. To systematise our work and calculate intelligently on probabilities. To dis- countenence the credit system, the mortgage system, the fashion system, and every other system tending to prodigality and bankruptcy. We propose meeting to- gether, talking together, working together, and in gen- eral acting together for our mutual protection and ad- vancement as occasion may require. We shall avoid litigation as much as possible by arbitration in the Grange. We shall constantly strive to secure entire harmony, good will, vital brotherhood among our- selves, and to make our order perpetual. We shall earnestly endeavor to suppress personal, local, sec- tional and national prejudices, all unhealthy rivalry, all selfish ambition.
The first Grange in the State of California or on the Pacific coast, was organized by Mr. A. A. Bayley, at Pilot Hill, El Dorado Co., August 10th, 1870, and called Pilot Hill Grange, No. I. The Charter mem- bers were: P. D. Brown, Master ; A. J. Bayley, Secre- tary ; J. W. Davis, A. A. Bayley, John Bishop, Jas. H. Rose, John Marshall, C. S. Rogers, Thos. Owens, J.P. Bayley, S. S. Blue, A. Martin, Wm. Norvall, J. R. Clow, Silas Hayes, J. S. Martin, T. T. Lovejoy, Wm. H. Matherley, George B. Mudd, Mrs. C. H. Jones, Mrs. C. S. Owens, Mrs. P. D. Brown, Mrs. G. B. Mudd, Mrs. E. J. Bayley, Miss Jane Jones, Miss Mary Jones, Miss A. R. Lovejoy, Miss M. R. Brown and Miss J. E. Bayley. Present officers, Wentworth, Master; H. C. Ewing, Secretary.
Clarksville Grange, No. 149, organized January 13th, 1874, by W. S. Manlove, Deputy ; charter mem- bers were R. T. Mills, Master ; J. Malby, Secretary ; Charles Chapman, Nettie Chapman, John F. York, W. D. Rantz, Amelia T. Rantz, J. E. Butler, Eliza- beth Mills, Peter R. Willot, C. F. Malby, Emma Woodward, A. Morrison, Samuel Kyburz, Rebecca S. Kyburz, Albert B. Kyburz, George Fitch, Egbert L. Wilson, Joseph Jouger, Chas. Porter, Atwood.
Placerville Grange, No. 241, organized February Ist, 1875, by A. J. Christie, Deputy. Wm. Wiltse, Master ; H. G. Hulbur:', Secretary ; Wm. Lewis, I. S. Bamber, R. Miles, Sarah Miles, George W. Ray, Ethelinda Ray, A. S. Cook, M. J. Cook, Frank Goyan, John P. Allen, Christie Ann Allen, Griffith L. Jones Joseph Lyon, Isaac Tribbin, Jacob Lyon, Elizabeth Lyon, Rachael G. Simons, Eli Herrell, Jno. Kemp,
Thomas Ralph, Byron H. Hulburd, C. H. Burnham and Mary J. Groves.
El Dorado Grange, No. 178, organized April 27th, 1874, by W. S. Manlove, Deputy. C. G. Carpenter, Master ; J. M. B. Wetherwax, Secretary ; Philip. Kramp, W. H. Kramp, Catherine Kramp, Jacob Knizeley, Fanny C. Knizeley, C. D. Brooke, Mary E. Brooks, M. S. Robinson, J. M. B. Wetherwax, D. E. Norton, Betsey A. Norton, Sarah H. Carpenter, C. G. Carpenter, F. C. Carpenter, John Bryan, C. T. Jones, Charlotte Foster, Thomas Burns, Cleora C. Burns, N. Gilmore. This Grange has consolidated with the Placerville Grange.
Sutter Mill Grange, No. 179, Coloma, organized April 29th, 1874, by W. S. Manlove, Deputy, A. J. Christie, Master ; Henry Mahler, Secretary; J. G. O'Brien, Henrietta A. O'Brien. O. Mortensen, Louisa Mortensen, W. D. Othick, E. DeLory, A. J. Peterson, W. Stearns, Wm. H. Hooper, Aggie Mahler, G. Bassi, W. H. Valentine, Mary Stearns, Edith Vanden- shefter, Anna A. Delory, E. M. Smith, Eliza J. Dob- son, Rebecca A. Poteel, S. J. Poteel, Andrew White, H. B. Newell, A. P. Christie, Rosa M. Cay, Robert Chalmers, Abe Chalmers, R. C. McCay, Mary E. DeLory, Francis Veerkamp.
EL DORADO MEDICAL SOCIETY.
Pursuant to an invitation addressed to the mem- bers of the Medical Profession throughout this county, calling upon them to meet in general convention in the city of Placerville on the 8th of May, 1856, for the purpose of forming a County Medical Society, a delegation from various sections of the county assem_ bled at Masonic Hall, May 8th, at one o'clock.
The convention was called to order by Dr. W. A. Worthen.
Dr. O. Harvey, upon nomination, was chosen chair- man of the convention, and Dr. S. L. Sargent, secre- tary.
On motion of Dr. Titus, a committee of three was appointed to report permanent officers for the conven- tion. Drs. P. Chamberlin, J. R. Edwards, and S. M. Slaughter were appointed.
Moved, by Dr. Edwards, that a committee of three
S. Euer, Clara S. Euer, I. W. Wilson and Carry E be appointed to examine the credentials of the mem-
bers. Whereupon Drs. Clark, Worthen and Fiske were appointed.
On call for names of members, the following mem- bers responded :
Dr. S. M. Slaughter Pleasant Valley
" J. R. Edwards Shingle Springs
" H. M. Fiske El Dorado
" L. P. Baker. . Grizzly Flat
" J. L. Sargent Ringgold
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Dr. F. M. Shields Cold Springs
" A. Clark
Placerville
" R. Rankin
" H. W. A. Worthen
" I. S. Titus
" O. Harvey 4€
" P. Chamberlain
" S. Hall.
Moved by Dr. Titus, that the test of qualification for membership be the same as that adopted by the State Medical Society.
The convention adjourned to meet again at Placer- vivlle on May 24th, 1856.
The convention met pursuant to adjournment at the Masonic Hall, at Placerville, on May 24th, 1856.
After some preliminary work the following officers were elected for the first year, ensuing the organiza- tion :
Samuel F. Hamm, Diamond Springs. . .President
P. Chamberlin, Placerville . Vice President
H. M. Fiske, El Dorado
I. S. Titus, Placerville Recording Secretary
O. Harvey, Placerville . Treasurer
J. L. Sargent, Ringgold. Censor
H. W. A. Worthen, Placerville
J. L. Shober,
A. Clark, "
B. F. Keene,
The farmers of El Dorado county organized a club, and at a meeting held at Placerville, September 7th, 1872, the following constitution and laws for the gov- ernment of the club were adopted :
CONSTITUTION.
Ist. This organization shall be known as "El Do- rado County Farmers' Club, No. 1."
2d. Its object shall be the improvement of its members in the theory and practice of agriculture.
3d. Its members, additional to its original num- ber, shall consist of such as shall receive a two-third vote for admission, and pay the sum of one dollar, and annually thereafter.
4th. Its officers shall consist of a President, Vice President, Treasurer and Librarian-who jointly consti- tute the Executive Committee-and shall be elected annually.
5th. Its meetings shall be held monthly, and at such time and place as the President may deem neces- sary to the good of the society.
6th. This constitution may be amended at any regular meeting, said amendment having been pro- posed at the previous meeting.
BY-LAWS.
1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 define the business of the officers. 6. Declares that meetings shall be held at Placer- ville, on the second Saturday of each month.
7. Decides about the business of the following standing committees of the club: On soils and their improvement ; on cereals; on root and other crops; on trees and timber ; on fruit (trees and vineyard); on domestic animals; on library.
The club elected Hon. Robert Chalmers and G. G. Blanchard to represent the club at the Farmers' State Club Convention meeting at Sacramento during the State Fair.
At a meeting for the purpose of reorganizing the El Dorado County Agricultural Society, held at Placer- ville, November 21st, 1877, there was a good attend- ance and much interest manifested. It was moved that the officers should consist of : President, two Vice Presidents, a Recording Secretary, a Financial Sec- retary, Treasurer and seven Directors; and that the Directors shall constitute a Board of Managers. The following officers were then elected for the ensuing year: Geo. G. Blanchard, President ; J. G. O'Brien, of Cold Springs, and E. C. Day, of Kelsey, Vice Presidents ; Charles H. Wetherwax, Financial Secretary ; Wm. Wiltse, Recording Secretary ; John Blair, Treasurer ; Directors-W. H. Valentine, Coloma ; J. H. Miller, Latrobe; N. Gilmore, El Dorado; E. R. Peace, Georgetown ; Thomas Hardie, and H. S. Morey, Placerville ; C. G. Carpenter, Diamond Springs.
TERRITORIAL PIONEERS.
Of 1849, and 1850, residing in El Dorado county.
The undersigned invite you to unite with them in a Society to be called the Territorial Pioneers of 1849 and 1850. The name indicates the nature and objects of the Society. Giving the post of honor to the Pioneers of Forty-nine, our Society would em- brace all those who came here prior to September 9th, 1850, the date of the admission of California in- to the Federal Union.
Such a Society will serve to reveal and re-unite early and unselfish friends, and to bring back to the memory many others who should not be forgotten. It will revive and keep alive the fading recollections of the "flush times," when hopeful and generous ad- venture was the princely almoner of wealth that seemed to be exhaustless. It will serve to recall the voluntary goodness and self-governing morality of a time when custom was king, and the custom was to do as one pleased. It will help with mutual consola- tion, and make it more pleasant to pass from a lately primeval "golden age" to a future of serious effort
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and steady habits. It will sustain and elevate the public spirit of those fortune hunting, but often un- fortunate contemporaries, who saw the glorious sun of California go down in lingering splendor upon a Terri- tory, and rise in sovereign grandeur upon a State.
We think the Society can be organized and made a source of mutual pleasure and good fellowship, at a trifling expense. The books are open, and any one desiring to do so, can give his full name and former place of residence, with the date of his arrival here, by letter, to A. J. Lowry, Secretary T. P., 1849 and 1850.
At the first meeting of the Territorial Pioneers of '49 and '50, on September 9th, 1871, they organized by electing as officers the following gentlemen : John F. Pinkham, President; Dr. H. W. A. Worthen, Ist Vice Presindent, A. A. Howard, 2d Vice President ; W. B. Wallace, Recording Secretary ; J. L. Perkins, Corresponding Secretary ; Colonel Wm. Jones, Treas- urer. Directors-John F. Pinkham, W. B. Wallace, B. F. Frost, G. J. Carpenter, Charles Broad, David Bennett and E. N. Strout. Marshal, E. N. Strout. Saturday on or preceding the full moon in December, March and June, was fixed for meeting days ; the an- nual meeting to be held on September 9th. There were 287 names of members on the roll.
A branch of the Society of Territorial Pioneers are the "Pioneers of El Dorado," outside of the county, are keeping an annual gathering at Badger's Park, East Oakland, for which purpose no tickets are issued and no money taken at the gates, but the sylvan shades of said park are as free as the pine- covered mountain sides of El Dorado county. The President of the society at the present time is W. T. Gibbs; W. H. Bodfish, Recording Secretary ; Thos. McMannis, Treasurer ; Vice Presidents and Executive Committee are : B. T. Catlin, Benj. Dore, D. W. Gel- wicks, J. P. Wonderdich, Robert Bell, John Satch- well and F. M. Thal. The list of Vice Presidents includes the following well known names : L. B. Hop_ kins, 1875 ; J, G. Brewton, 1876 ; Robert Bell, 1877. Thomas McMannis, 1878 ; James J. Green, 1879; Dr. I. S. Titus, 1880 ; James C. Pennie, 1881.
John F. Pinkham, Robert A. Jeffries,
Benj. F. Post, J. W. E. Brown,
J. Q. A. Ballard,
John James,
Col. S. Altar, Jeremiah W. Kendall,
L. L. Ramsay, Richard Lane,
Jehu Evans, J. H. Miller,
J. L. Perkins,
James K. Shaver,
A. J. Lowry,
Jesse Couch,
H. C. Murgotten,
O. M. Taylor,
A. Darlington,
John Cantrell,
William Christian,
John R. Patten,
T. G. Barton,
Darwin DeGolia, A. Coleman,
J. D. McMurray,
Dr. Ira Glynn, R. S. Hernandez,
A. H. Reid, E. N. Strout, Geo. G. Blanchard,
H. S. Allen, H. W. A. Worthen,
John P. Matthews, Charles W. Haskins,
Almerin Fisk, John Little, Thomas H. Hart,
F. T. Ramsey,
Dr. D. Stewart Smith,
Wm. Weatherill,
John Bishop, J. C. F. Koepcke,
John Angus, George W. Frater, James Moon,
Nathaniel B. Dryden,
John Mosby Price,
Paul Mitchell,
S. J. Ford, Wm. Frey,
John Price,
D. T. Hall,
Henry Day,
Theo. Eisfeldt, Sr.,
Henry Mahler,
E. L. Kenney,
Geo. H. Ingham,
G. L. Vaughn,
Phil. Teuscher,
Duncan Ferguson,
W. R. Gallaher,
John Crocker,
B .F. Edmonds,
James R. Griffin,
John S. Fowler,
Samuel Kyburz,
D. B. Luken,
Wm. S. Gray,
W. B. Wallace,
Moses A. Smith,
L. B. McClain,
Guillaum Barrette.
Charles Barker,
George W. Vaugah,
Richard Murphy,
E. S. Barney,
David Bennett, Wm. Newland, J. G. O'Brien,
Mat. Morgan,
Wm. Morgan,
Charles Watson, William Smith,
George Beattie, A. C. Dale,
Wm. L. Rhodes,
John M. Rice,
Joshua W. Lance, John Gale,
Chas. W. Winstandley,
Lewis Dubray, James S. Hartman, A. G. Stewart,
T. C. Nugent, Wm. Jones,
Flemming Jones, James Creighton, Matthew Q. Dennis, Barney O'Rourke, James Sharp, Gilbert Hix, Isaac Yoacum, Samuel Robinson,
Levi Hunsberger, N. D. Burlingham,
Reuben Twyman, Neal Gallagher,
J. V. Dilley,
Dr. W. E. Spencer,
E. H. Perry, Wm. C. Smith,
N. F. Marrs,
John Bunker, Jefferson Baird,
Robert Chalmers, S. F. Child, Jno. G. Vanderheyden,
John Teuscher,
C. Perry Young, S. A. Berry,
Thomas Coppinger,
J. D. Skinner, Wm. Krahner, Joe. Brinley, A. Aitken,
E. P. Vaughn, W. C. Beal,
George E. Rigsby,
J. T. G. Chamblin,
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D. W. Chichester, H. Brian.
M. C. Metzler,
James Bunyan Hume,
James R. Johnson,
G. J. Carpenter,
Thomas B. Patten, William H. Cooper, Smith Morill,
Wm. Leasly,
William J. Hale,
S. J. Ensminger,
Samuel Fleming,
Truman Wilcox,
L. C. Fisk, Wm. E. Tripp, J. P. Wonderlich,
D. Elmendorf,
John Cartheche,
Isaac Showater,
Russel Bronson,
Frank Gerbode,
Jacob Winkleman, Sr., Henry T. Newhall,
H. B. Turman, John Henry Dodd, Henry Kennedy,
Maryland Frazier,
George Hunsucker,
Wilber Read,
John Steiner,
Nathaniel Lawrence, Jonathan N. Lauman, Henry Myers,
Augustus T. Lee, James M. Oxley,
Ernest Mortensen, H. S. Hulburd,
A. J. Wilson,
Chas. M. King,
S. E. Kyburz,
J. W. Foster,
Geo. W. Parsons,
S. D. Colburn,
James C. Bronson.
S. O. Pierce,
George H. H. Forester, Thomas Davidson,
A. A. Howard,
A. B. Bates,
J. G. Bailey,
John Gould,
Deaths
4
To deduct
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Remaining on March 20th, 1857.
17
The number of charity patients seeking advice and treatment from the dispensary during the quarter, not residing in the hospital, were 37.
DEATHS.
Dropsy of the chest
I
Bronchitis
I
Phthisis
I
Unknown
I
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Joshua V. Lanston, J. P. Steele,
Henry James, J. W. Rupley,
Andrew Jackson Wall, H. F. Lear,
George W. Rymal, PLACERVILLE, July 4th, 1871.
CHAPTER XXIX.
COUNTY HOSPITAL, ETC.
From the organization of the county up to the year 1855, the citizens of the county had been heavily taxed for the support of the indigent sick in the county, who had to be removed to the Marine Hos- pital at Fan Francisco. But the State Legislature in 1854 to 1855, in accordance with the general dislike of the people to go there, abolished this use of the Marine Hospital and made provision for each county to take care of its own indigent sick. Whereupon the Board of Supervisors of El Dorado county, under date of June 9th, 1855, awarded the contract to take care of and provide for the indigent sick of the county to Drs. Clark and Harvey, two well known physicians of Placerville. The substance of this contract was to the following effect : that both these gentlemen bind themselves to render their medical services and to furnish an appropriate building for the sum of $3,500 for the time of one year, the county furnishing all other materials necessary for the patients. The Broad- way hotel, in Upper Placerville was rented, and ar- rangements made for its occupation as the first hos- pital.
The first county hospital report was presented to the Board of Supervisors of this county, for the quarter ending December 20th, 1856, to March 20th, 1857. The report gives the number of patients remain- ing in the hospital on December 10th, 1856 .. IO
Admissions for the quarter . 26
Total number treated in the hospital
36
Discharged during the quarter
15
Samuel Spong,
Wm. McCormick,
Levi Brown,
H. O. Hooper,
J. P. White,
N. Osgood,
Thomas Anders,
R. G. R. Moore,
Gen'l. Phipps,
Manuel Snow,
J. W. Baldwin,
Egbert L. Wilson,
Thomas Beckner,
Nicholas Mulick,
M. Fairchild,
B. F. Johns, E. Grant,
Wm. T. Gibbs, John McClaren,
A. J. Christie,
Thomas Armstrong,
John Maffey,
Wm. Johnson,
Robert McBeth,
S. B. Dick,
J. W. Annabel,
Patrick Martin, Henry Larkin, N. Gilmore,
Charles Broad, Wm. Dormody, Geo. W. Simpers, John Hines, Samuel S. Wilson, Stephen Willets,
H. E. Cutting, Nick Wonderly, G. W. Hunter, John Daniel, O. E. Shepherd, George W. Harr,
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